a legal consultancy for entrepreneurs, social enterprises, sustainable businesses and community projects

Do you need a legal consultancy to assist you with a strong legal plan, whilst honouring your intelligence and being careful with your funds?

Thrive Legal is affordable, positive, creative and geared towards entrepreneurs, social enterprises and community projects.

Whenever you need to understand the legal issues within the context of your venture, we would love to help you.

Your Views Count

That’s why we listen to you first, without presumption, interruption or judgement. We always research your venture and aspirations to co-create an authentic, needs-driven plan.

Your Comfort

We appreciate that you are balancing other commitments or weighing implications. We respect your time frames, so you have time and space to reflect, tweak and play with the variables of the transaction until you feel comfortable you’ve got it right.

Your Empowerment

Sometimes the law is complex, maybe paperwork isn’t your forte. We will ensure you don’t feel disengaged or disempowered. We craft your documents in clear terms so you can use them confidently and structure your venture in simple stages. We take time to educate and connect with you, so you can easily relate to every stage of the process and contribute meaningfully.

Your Protection

Don’t get stuck, get help! Your vision or venture deserves protecting. We have your best interests at heart and we will work with you to develop a strategy to help you take care of what you have now and keep flourishing in the future.

GETTING YOUR PROJECTS STARTED & THRIVING

At Thrive Legal, we are firm believers in charting your own course, and one of our greatest pleasures is supporting ventures with a community or ethical focus to profit handsomely and flourish independently.

We know it is hard to find a really good deal relying on free legal incentives from banks or from traditional practices, where time recording, performance targets and large overheads have to be factored into the fees, (particularly when some of your projects were complex and need some serious pondering and teasing out time).

We found it unfair to witness your projects being thwarted prematurely, for the want of a legal friend, when you have such dedication, tenacity of spirit and heart for the community.

You deserved to benefit from a quality City level service to support your legals and a tremendously passionate and knowledgeable legal consultant to turn to for encouragement and sage advice. At Thrive Legal, we see projects through, not abandoned in their critical stages and thus…

Thrive Legal was created to Support Your Projects to Shape & Inspire Communities.

All sorts of people have fantastic community projects and creative visions, some the world would say are posh, others wealthy, others your humble ‘swede pulling saxon’, some very dyslexic, or lack fluency in English etc. We love you all and we will do our utmost to put you at ease and work with you in ways you are comfortable with to bring out your best.

In any given project, we are working in one of the ways below for you.

Advocacy

EXPRESS YOUR VISION WITH EASE & GRACE

We believe that great advocacy is to develop a compassionate understanding and awareness of another party’s view point, whilst truthfully expressing one’s own, with ease and grace.

Agreements

IN ALL YOUR GETTING: GET UNDERSTANDING

If you understand the benefits of starting as you mean to continue, at Thrive Legal, we would be glad to support you. We are used to working with all kinds of people and projects and we understand that one size does not fit all.

We have experience working with international clients from the US, Europe, Africa and South America as well as the UK.

We can handle all aspects of your venture, including those below.

Alas, long gone are the days of sandal swapping to seal a deal. It’s done on paper these days, (it doesn’t necessarily have to be locked on white A4 paper), and we endeavour to be creative in our presentation according to your needs. You will however, inevitably need a few contracts.

Community projects can be an incredibly rewarding experience to participate in, or instigate, be that community purchased assets. Channelling all that goodwill, energy and commitment can be as great a task as organising the project itself, and is a critical part to the success and sustainability of such projects. Passions can run high, personalities clash, and values diverge.

All great ideas need a skin, to contain all that vision and energy, shape its identity in the big wide world and define the scope of its capabilities. If you want to be sure about your options, understand the pros and cons to help you identify how to give your vision the best start, Thrive Legal would love to be of service to you.

There comes a point- sometimes more quickly for some, when your spare room, kitchen table or co- op desk space is no longer a suitable space to operate. Yup, it’s time to move out and create a solid base from which to grow

It’s critical to get off to a strong start unhindered by claims, losses and disputes but it isn’t always easy to achieve this. We understand: People get sick, die, poach your clients, asset strip, that deal does not pay up, will it ever? a project gets off track and delayed leaving you facing penalties or with a loss.

Work With Us

Where would you be in six months, or even a year if you got help now? What is it costing you not to get help now? If you are ready to take the next step, simply choose a consultation session and schedule it straight away, no hanging around on phones or waiting for call backs. You pick the time and day that work best for you.

I qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2001, at top tier International City law firm, Dentons and practiced for 16 years before establishing this consultancy. I’ve worked in overseas satellite offices and have been involved in large projects in the UK and Africa for blue chip clients, public organisations and private investors and also run my own law firm specialising in supporting social ventures.

Inspired by the pro bono work I’ve done over the past 16 years, I developed a passion for channeling my legal skills for community projects and social ventures. This can be individual projects like the legals for social business start-ups, setting up a specialty programme for an NGO or non- profit, to assisting a co-operatives or employee-owned public sector mutual, partner with a local authority for the delivery of public services. Further personal interests have also lead me to enhance my work through training in mediation and non violent communication methods.